# Literary characters you crave sexually **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 29, 2003, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-characters-you-crave-sexually/198322 "2003-08-29T00:11:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-characters-you-crave-sexually/198322/21 "2003-08-29T18:52:00Z")
Lord Peter Whimsey ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-characters-you-crave-sexually/198322/22 "2003-08-29T19:08:02Z")
Dejah Thoris is a good one, but for me it was always Xanth’s Princess Irene. I had to give her up, though – when I was 12 she was 12 (when I read Castle Roogna); then, two weeks later (Centaur Aisle) I was still 12 and she was 16 – which was _great_, but within the next couple months she was in her 30’s, married, and had two kids, while I was only 13. (Dragon on a Pedestal) > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by nisosbar \* > **Or Biff, from Piers Anthony’s A Spell for Chameleon.** I believe the gentleman’s name is **Bink**. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-characters-you-crave-sexually/198322/23 "2003-08-29T19:33:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by fizzygoodmakefeelnice \* > \*\*I’ll second Roland of Gilead. Also Steerpike. \*\* Steerpike from Gormenghast? :eek: Fuchia is the only sexy character - we could read “The Frivolous Cake” to get in the mood! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-characters-you-crave-sexually/198322/24 "2003-08-29T19:48:53Z")
Heinlein has a lot of tempting ladies (I see the appeal of Friday, but the low self-confidence is a turnoff), but I think that the best would probably be Hazel Stone, sometime after _The Moon is a Harsh Mistress_ but before _The Rolling Stones_. Heck, even at the time of _The Rolling Stones_… I’m sure she hasn’t forgotten a thing. As Heinlein runners-up, Adorable Dora (we all live the same length of time: One lifetime) or the Zulu girl from _Tunnel in the Sky_. And on another SF note, Teela Brown might not be all that experienced, but doing it with her would bring a whole new meaning to “getting lucky”. ---
**Author:** ![lisacurl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/41988e/32.png) [@lisacurl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisacurl)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-characters-you-crave-sexually/198322/25 "2003-08-29T21:26:55Z")
I am madly in love with Samuel Vimes, but I’m strongly sexually attracted to Lord Vetinari. I’m not sure exactly what that says about my unconscious. ---
**Author:** ![HoldenCaulfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/22d042/32.png) [@HoldenCaulfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoldenCaulfield)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-characters-you-crave-sexually/198322/26 "2003-08-29T21:41:54Z")
Kamala from Siddhartha. I guess that’s kinda weird, but she is really the only literary character I’ve ever craved sexually. ---
**Author:** ![BDS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3e96dc/32.png) [@BDS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BDS)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-characters-you-crave-sexually/198322/27 "2003-08-29T21:42:34Z")
Anna Kareninna – “Such danerous passions…” Arwen Evenstar – Who wouldn’t want to have sex with an immortal? Bradamonte – Tough broad. Plus, if anyone pissed you off, you could have her brother take care of him. If not her. Emma Woodhouse, Elizabeth Bennet and Anne Eliot – “Have you young ladies ever tried the ‘group’ thing before”? ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-characters-you-crave-sexually/198322/28 "2003-08-29T23:06:54Z")
Well, **shy guy** and **Morgyn** have got damn fine taste, but since I’m not in a nice-guy mood this evening, I’ve got to say Richard III as imagined by Shakespeare. (Hey, you didn’t say they had to be entirely _fictional_ characters.) ---
**Author:** ![gawen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a88e57/32.png) [@gawen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gawen)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-characters-you-crave-sexually/198322/29 "2003-08-29T23:32:53Z")
Helene from the “Illiad”, a woman so beautiful that soldiers fight for more than 10years to get her back and Penelope from “Odyseus”, i like my classics ---
**Author:** ![Carwash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Carwash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carwash)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-characters-you-crave-sexually/198322/30 "2003-08-29T23:58:44Z")
Alex from ‘Clockwork Orange’ Renton from ‘Trainspotting’ Lestat from ‘Interview with the Vampire’ McMurphy from ‘One flew over the cuckoo’s nest’ Don’t know what that says about me - in fact I don’t want to know what that says about me. Is there such a thing as a ‘book slut’? ---
**Author:** ![Carwash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Carwash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carwash)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2003, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-characters-you-crave-sexually/198322/31 "2003-08-30T00:06:16Z")
Oops forgot one Mr Knightley from ‘Emma’ My god I AM a book slut. ---
**Author:** ![Jurhael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@Jurhael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jurhael)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2003, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-characters-you-crave-sexually/198322/32 "2003-08-30T02:30:40Z")
Claude Frollo Severus Snape Remus Lupin Sirius Black Roland of Gilead ---
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2003, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-characters-you-crave-sexually/198322/33 "2003-08-30T02:32:57Z")
Rhett Butler ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2003, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-characters-you-crave-sexually/198322/34 "2003-08-30T02:47:18Z")
Darkwind K’Sheyna from Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar series. Garik “Face” Loran from _Star Wars: X-Wing_ series. (He’s NOT a movie character-he was only in the books). Colonel Brandon in _Sense and Sensibility_. ---
**Author:** ![Eowyn\_the\_Mercotan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Eowyn\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eowyn_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2003, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-characters-you-crave-sexually/198322/35 "2003-08-30T03:03:12Z")
Mmmm, Darkwind. Roland of Gilead is great. Perrin Aybara from “The Wheel of Time” series Jon Snow from “A Game of Thrones” ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2003, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-characters-you-crave-sexually/198322/36 "2003-08-30T10:18:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jurhael \* > \*\*Claude Frollo > Severus Snape > Remus Lupin > Sirius Black > Roland of Gilead \*\* I think I’d have to second Severus Snape, there’s just something so very very sexy about him. Oh, and Aragorn… yum yum and more yum. ---
**Author:** ![McJohn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@McJohn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/McJohn)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2003, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-characters-you-crave-sexually/198322/37 "2003-08-30T10:58:09Z")
Marian Halcombe from “The Woman in White”. And, if we’re including comic-book characters, Rena Titanon from “Love and Rockets”. Atticus Finch, naturally, 'cept he’d tell you no for reasons of high principle… Elphaba from “Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West”. Percy Blakeney from “The Scarlet Pimpernel”… oh, heck, throw in Marguerite as well. Aramis from “The Three Musketeers”. Haydee, “The Count of Monte Cristo”. Man, talk about your book sluts. There’s no Heinlein character in particular that grabs me, but the author himself has a serious thing for Maureen Johnson in “To Sail Beyond the Sunset”. She’s the perfect woman he spent his career building. I got one word for how she turned out: ugh. ---
**Author:** ![gex\_gex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@gex\_gex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gex_gex)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2003, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-characters-you-crave-sexually/198322/38 "2003-08-30T12:14:50Z")
Rosalind from _As You Like It_. ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2003, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-characters-you-crave-sexually/198322/39 "2003-08-30T12:24:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Angua \* > **Pratchett’s Angua? Or the SD’s Angua? 😉** Mmm, tough choice. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2003, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-characters-you-crave-sexually/198322/40 "2003-08-30T13:45:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Morgyn \* > \*\*Lord Peter Whimsey \*\* nitpick: Wimsey, dammit, Wimsey! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-characters-you-crave-sexually/198322.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-characters-you-crave-sexually/198322.md?page=3)